In 1862, Gregor Mendel bred pea plants to study inheritance. Fast forward 100 years to 1962, James Watson, Frances Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded a Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA. Today...
Author - Aishani Aatresh
Tackling the future of sustainability at the 2019 Biodesign Challenge Summit
Last month, 37 teams of university and high school students from 9 countries convened at the Museum of Modern Art and Parsons School of Design in New York to present their biotechnology solutions to some of the world’s...
How Distributed Bio CSO Jake Glanville is engineering the cell for the 21st century
For most of human history, we have furthered our knowledge about life by zooming in — starting at the macro level and inching towards the micro. Although there are innumerable advancements that have facilitated...
The top 10 skills synthetic biologists will need for 2019
Synthetic biology is one of the most rapidly advancing fields in the world today. From universal vaccine development and CRISPR-Cas9 applications to agritech and biofuels, synthetic biology is establishing itself as a...
A clash of titans: DIY Bio met the homebrew computer club at SynBioBeta 2018
Steve Wozniak: the man who co-founded Apple, a household name. George Church: the synthetic biologist and professor, a mammoth contributor to science, both figuratively and literally. The opening night of SynBioBeta...
